While having tea today in evening I heard "Mere Khwabon Mein" song.It immediately struck me about DDLJ movie .Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge - Come Fall in Love("Again"). It was Aditya Chopra's debut film as a director. This film remains an iconic Bollywood love story even today.Those were the days...I don't know if they would ever do romance like this on the big screen ever again!
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The story revolves around Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) a rich Londoner, who wishes to go to Europe for a month's vacation and Simran (Kajol), also from London, does the same. After Raj and Simran play jokes on each other, Raj finally makes her miss her train and they are stuck alone in the mountains of Europe. By the time they both come back, the both fall in love with each other. But Simran's marriage has been arranged with another person in India, Kamaljeet (Parmeet Sethi). The movie depicts the struggle of Raj to win Simran from her father, Chaudhry Baldev Singh (Amrish Puri).
I remember terrific performances from Kajol, Shahrukh, and the supporting cast. Anupam’s comical and affectionate acting, Amrish’s stern, forbidding and yet a loving father touches heart. Mandira Bedi is very sweet as the girl in India who falls for Shahrukh. Farida potrays a caring mother role very convincingly and gives a memorable turn.
The music was uniformly wonderful with the centrepiece being Tujhe Dekha a beautiful and haunting tune in which Kajol and Shahrukh admit their feelings for one another. Other standouts are Mere Khwabon Mein with Kajol .Much of the choreography though is surprisingly not extraordinary and only the lively Mehndi Lagake really hits home with its call and response scenario between the men and the women at the engagement party.
Aditya Chopra has balanced his film well and delivered a memorable film. He has filled the film with several memorable scenes, like Raj's meetings with Simran's father and the climax which throws in a little action to the mix. A superlative feather in the Chopra's enviable cap!
The film won National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.The film is so good one can see as it has been running for 17 years, released in 1995 and is still running at Maratha Mandir in South Mumbai.The owner of maratha Mandir says the hall has screened DDLJ for the past 10 years, plans to let it stay for another 100 weeks. He says that inspite of running for a decade, the movie still pulls in crowds and creates bouts of optimism and romance.
DDLJ out-stand all the flaws, and by all means is a masterpiece.I loved the songs, the background music and guitar sound which made this movie more perfect. There were no plot holes and it make you stick throughout the movies. DDLJ had those typical ingredients to get popular among masses and achieve cult status.It has a more gripping love story everseen before.
An international record breaker : "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge".It is voted as the favourite indian film of the past 100 years.
The story revolves around Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) a rich Londoner, who wishes to go to Europe for a month's vacation and Simran (Kajol), also from London, does the same. After Raj and Simran play jokes on each other, Raj finally makes her miss her train and they are stuck alone in the mountains of Europe. By the time they both come back, the both fall in love with each other. But Simran's marriage has been arranged with another person in India, Kamaljeet (Parmeet Sethi). The movie depicts the struggle of Raj to win Simran from her father, Chaudhry Baldev Singh (Amrish Puri).
I remember terrific performances from Kajol, Shahrukh, and the supporting cast. Anupam’s comical and affectionate acting, Amrish’s stern, forbidding and yet a loving father touches heart. Mandira Bedi is very sweet as the girl in India who falls for Shahrukh. Farida potrays a caring mother role very convincingly and gives a memorable turn.
The music was uniformly wonderful with the centrepiece being Tujhe Dekha a beautiful and haunting tune in which Kajol and Shahrukh admit their feelings for one another. Other standouts are Mere Khwabon Mein with Kajol .Much of the choreography though is surprisingly not extraordinary and only the lively Mehndi Lagake really hits home with its call and response scenario between the men and the women at the engagement party.
Aditya Chopra has balanced his film well and delivered a memorable film. He has filled the film with several memorable scenes, like Raj's meetings with Simran's father and the climax which throws in a little action to the mix. A superlative feather in the Chopra's enviable cap!
The film won National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.The film is so good one can see as it has been running for 17 years, released in 1995 and is still running at Maratha Mandir in South Mumbai.The owner of maratha Mandir says the hall has screened DDLJ for the past 10 years, plans to let it stay for another 100 weeks. He says that inspite of running for a decade, the movie still pulls in crowds and creates bouts of optimism and romance.
DDLJ out-stand all the flaws, and by all means is a masterpiece.I loved the songs, the background music and guitar sound which made this movie more perfect. There were no plot holes and it make you stick throughout the movies. DDLJ had those typical ingredients to get popular among masses and achieve cult status.It has a more gripping love story everseen before.
An international record breaker : "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge".It is voted as the favourite indian film of the past 100 years.
